But forgive me, folks, if I don’t go all dancin’-in-the-streets euphoric just because we had a nice Detroit pep rally Tuesday to celebrate the beneficence of American business giants Buffett and Goldman CEO Lloyd Blankfein in announcing inclusion of our town, along with 16 others, in Goldman’s 10,000 Small Businesses job growth initiative.

Is it just me, or do others also think that too many people talk about Detroit as if it’s dead, comatose or so severely crippled that only divine intervention can save it?

Gov. Rick Snyder spoke, Mayor Dave Bing, too, along with legendary investor Buffett and Blankfein at a Ford Field news media event Tuesday. Joining the chorus came U.S. Sen. Debbie Stabenow and U.S. Reps. John Dingell, John Conyers and Gary Peters.

As if in unison, they proclaimed that Detroit is still alive and kicking. How often do you hear that said about other cities? Why do we need to say it, or hear it, about Detroit?

Each predicted Detroit can rise again to greatness. As if we’re all napping or sitting on our backsides now.

A lunch for 400 at Eastern Market followed, with a hopeful panel discussion that included Buffett and Blankfein and Snyder — and also Quicken Loans Chairman Dan Gilbert.

Driving back to my office, I passed an old downtown building with the words brightly painted on the side, “Rebirth of Detroit.”

As if we had already died.

What made me even more uneasy was flipping on my computer to view a video clip from Tuesday’s “Morning Joe” show on MSNBC, where in step with the day’s resurrection theme, they had a remote link to Detroit for a chat with Snyder, Blankfein, Buffett and Espy Thomas, owner of Sweet Potato Sensations. She will be one of the city’s first participants in the 10,000 Small Businesses program of practical business education and a possible capital infusion.

The headline under the MSNBC video said, “How a Sweet Potato Baker is Helping Revive Detroit.”

Really? Not only did Morning Joe assume that Detroit is either dead or unconscious — and thus in need of revival — but its headline advanced the fanciful notion that our fallen industrial giant will somehow find renewal in a sweet potato pie shop, or an explosion of them.

In his best earnest empathetic voice, one of the co-hosts asked Espy how she is able to grow Sweet Potato Sensations “in an environment like Detroit, which is formidable.” And that means? Formidable like a hurricane? A war zone? An on-rushing Ndamukong Suh?

Maybe it’s the onset of holiday season that has me tired of Detroit being referred to as a modern-day “Tiny Tim” Cratchit from Charles Dickens’ “A Christmas Carol,” a plucky but almost dead family member.

Gilbert, thankfully, was one speaker who interrupted the maudlin chorus to suggest that Detroiters are too critical of themselves.

The city hit bottom several years ago, he said. It’s on the rebound now, it’s got some positive buzz and momentum and, yes, there are huge challenges ahead, but it’s action we need — knock down every blighted building in the city, all of them — and not navel-gazing.

Again, thanks to Buffett and Goldman Sachs for coming to town with cash and good wishes.

I don’t mean to be a downer on the day before Thanksgiving, but it really is time to move beyond talking about Detroit as dead or crippled.